- He was very popular with his humorous couplets especially during the 20s.
- After a longer interruption he took part again in a movie for the last time - "Frühere Verhältnisse" (1927) where he impersonated the role of the theater director in it.
- He wrote over a thousand Couplets, a German form of amusing cabaret song.
- Otto Reutter originally planned to retire from the entertainment business in 1919 and to enjoy his life with his earned millions. But the inflation after World War I destroyed most of his savings and he was forced to continue his career - a "piece of luck" for his late work which belongs to the most memorable ones.
- When he left Berlin, he moved to Karlsruhe and became part of a troupe of tavern singers and comedians there.
- Sick and exhausted, Otto Reutter died during a guest appearance in Düsseldorf in 1931, and was buried in Gardelegen.
- In the German film history he belonged to the real pioneers, a first movie already came in 1897 into being with "Nächtliche Hotelszene" (1897).
- Otto Reutter's unresting engagements had taken their toll. Exhausted he was not able to muster the strength to fight an illness and he died at the age of 61.
- In 1895, he first appeared as a "salon humorist", probably in Bern, Switzerland. The following year he had his breakthrough.
- He began his professional life with an education as a commercial clerk but when he finished the education he took his heels and went to the world of performing arts. He already tasted theater atmosphere as an extra in 1887.
- Particularly notable about Reutter was his ability to deliver original, amusing lyrics in a singsong manner, his persona full of irony and wit. After a successful appearance in the "Wintergarten Variety" of the Berlin Central Hotel, Reutter was hailed as a celebrity, and was considered in the following decades as one of the leading artists of the stage in Germany.
- The 20s marked the height of his career and he became even more popular with his couplets he performed at the Wintergarten. Many of those lyrics are still in remembrance of later artists and performers like Peter Frankenfeld, Armin Berg, Markus Schimpp or Robert Kreis have picked it up.
- Contemporary personalities who belonged to the admirers of his couplets were Kurt Tucholsky and Erich Kästner.
- Otto Reutter was also a producer of numerous revues at the beginning of the 20th century and from 1915 although from so-called war revues. Later he wrote many satiric songs which reflected the actual situation from politic and society and hit the nerve of the times. He also elaborated personal blows like the death of his son who was killed in action in Verdun in 1916 during World War I into thoughtful songs.
- In the course of time his way led him from an unknown artist and comedian via a first performance as a humorist in Berne, Switzerland to the Wintergarten in Berlin where he managed his breakthrough with his melodious chanting songs and as a singer for records and in revues.
- After completing his apprenticeship, he moved to Berlin and became active in theater and as a comedian.
- In the 1920s, Reutter wrote many of the songs for which he is still well known today, songs that have been sung by many well-known German artists.
- Born into a poor Catholic family, Reutter attended the Catholic school in Gardelegen and was then trained as a salesman's assistant.
- Besides his movies he also took part in some other movies as an extra but was not mentioned in the credit list.
- He was able to continue his film career in the 10s and he got an own film serial. To these productions belong "Otto Reutter will Schauspieler werden" (1912) directed by Emil Albes, "Otto heiratet" 19(14) and "Otto als Dienstmann" (1915), both directed by Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers.
- Starting around 1919, his "mature work" began to appear: songs that were especially characterized by humor and melancholy, the wisdom of life, and a kind of weary sass and bite.
- His songs didn't just foresee societal changes, but also presented their listeners with comfort in times that required great sacrifice. His songs tended to follow the taste of the times, as well as current events.
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